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An 11-year-old boy was killed when a crude bomb exploded in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Sunday, police said. The bomb was kept in a box near a canal in Khatipur village and the boy accidentally came in contact with Read More …
In a major seizure, security forces seized 40 kilograms of high explosive material along with several improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during a joint search operation in Doda district, the Army said on Saturday. “The timely recovery thwarted the nefarious designs Read More …
Security forces detected and destroyed two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts on Friday, police said. One IED was detected today morning at Circle Road in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district and was subsequently destroyed by Read More …
Researchers at the National Center of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security (NCETIS) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, have designed a hand-held explosive detection device that can detect explosives. Director, Subhasis Chaudhuri, on Tuesday, announced that some Read More …
As much as 1,600 metric tons of unexploded ordnance was disposed of by the Southern Command of the Indian Army to help civilian authorities in Mumbai and several other locations, a defence release said today. In Mumbai alone, over 800 Read More …
Chhattisgarh police on Wednesday dismissed Maoist allegations regarding an airstrike/drone attack in Gudem village under police station limits of Bijapur. The state police said the Maoists’ claims are totally baseless and an outcome of fear and confusion in the rank Read More …
A 12-year-old boy suffered injuries after he picked up a crude bomb, mistaking it for a ball, from a garbage heap and then threw it away, causing an explosion. The incident took place on Tuesday evening when the boy, Sachin, Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) and explosives were recovered and defused by the police and security forces in different incidents. One IED was recovered and defused in the Khanyar area of Srinagar after the police found a suspicious steel box Read More …
The Charla police on Thursday claimed to have seized a pressure cooker bomb from a Maoist militia member and defused another pressure cooker bomb allegedly planted by the local militia members of the outlawed organisation near a stream in Rallapuram Read More …
At a time when the number of Maoists is reducing, guerrilla militants are increasingly preferring to use ‘booby traps’ to ensure maximum damage to the security forces without losing even a single comrade. Booby trap, a mechanism often used during Read More …
